Nancy Shevell is a native of New York and was born on November 20, 1959. She is of Jewish origins and hails from a family of five comprising of dad, Myron, mother, Arlene, and two siblings, Susan and Jon. Nancy’s father, Myron, made a multimillion-dollar fortune from the large haulage industry but the journey to that status wasn’t easy at all.
Myron and his brother, Daniel, first joined hands and went into the transportation business in the 60s. They were however accused of having links with the mafia family and forced to wind down. The disappointment of the whole thing made Daniel take his own life but Nancy’s father persevered.
He purchased the then-struggling New England Motor Freight Inc. in 1977 and was able to turn it into one of the largest trucking companies in the United States. At its peak, the company employed 1325 drivers and operated 1446 power units. It also pulled in about $400 million per annum. All these Myron achieved despite the fact that he endured a five-year ban from the government after being accused of colluding with the Genovese crime family to skirt union rules in 1988.
